Added a self-berating command relating to installation directories for
module distributions that contain platform-specific files.
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/command/install.py b/Lib/distutils/command/install.py
index 54b8187..01ea005 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/command/install.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/command/install.py
@@ -165,6 +165,14 @@
# shared files, with no nice way to override it! (this
# might be a Python problem, though, not a Distutils
# problem...)
+
+ # NO: the way to fix this is
+ # * any platform-dependent files in distribution?
+ # yes: install under exec-prefix
+ # no: install under prefix
+ # ...which will require a pretty major rethink of all
+ # this. Damn.
+
self.install_site_platlib = \
os.path.join (self.install_lib, 'site-packages')
else: